THERAPY

THERAPY SERVICES

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  CBT is a type of therapy that helps clients understand that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected and influence each other.  By changing the way we think about a certain situation, we are able to change our feelings and behaviors.

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

  DBT is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that is specifically designed to help individuals with problems related to chronic suicidality and self-harm.  This form of therapy is well known for clients with Borderline Personality Disorder but works well for other problems as well.

• Substance Abuse Counseling

  Substance abuse counseling is designed to help people move from active addiction to recovery.  At SMHC, we take a dual recovery approach to addictions, mindful of the role that mental illness plays in addiction and recovery. 

• Denial Management Counseling (DMC)

  DMC is designed to use with clients who are unaware of their problems or may be in denial of their problems. DMC helps the clients recognize their denial patterns and work through them in order to take steps towards recovery from addiction as well as other problems.

• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

  TF-CBT is a form of therapy used to help adolescents and children work through the trauma(s) that they have experienced.  The therapist helps the child with his/her thoughts, emotions, relaxing exercises, and coping skills prior to working directly with the trauma.  Children and parents learn new skills to help them process their thoughts and feelings related to the trauma.

• Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Adolescents and Children (ITCT)

  ITCT is also a form of therapy that helps adolescents and children work through traumatic experiences.  ITCT is an assessment driven treatment that addresses complex trauma by utilizing a variety treatment strategies.

• Art Therapy

  Art therapy uses the creative process combined with therapeutic techniques to help clients resolve conflicts.  Art therapy is available to clients of all ages.

• Adult Art Therapy Group

  The adult art therapy group is designed for adults who are interested in working
  with their creative side to help them relieve their mental health symptoms.

• Play Therapy

  In Play Therapy we use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development.

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group (DBT)

  DBT Group is designed to treat individuals with chronic suicidality, self-harm, or other self-destructive behaviors.

• Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

  PCIT is an evidence-based therapy approach for children, ages 2 to 7.

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• Voices and Visions Support Group

  This group is designed for people who experience troublesome voices, visions, or sensations due to a mental illness.  This group meets every week to provide support by sharing experiences.

• Parent Education Group for Parents of Children Exposed to Trauma

  This group is designed to help parents of children who have experienced trauma.

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  EMDR is an evidenced-based treatment approach that is an option to be used for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  EMDR works by using both sides of the brain to help reprocess distressful memories.  This is called bilateral stimulation. EMDR is composed of cognitive grounding and restructuring of stressful memories.

• Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

  PCIT is an evidence-based therapy approach for children, ages 2-7.  PCIT is taught to the child’s parent(s) to help them learn specific strategies to deal effectively with decreasing their child’s aggressive behaviors, increasing the child’s compliance, and increasing positive responses by the parent(s).  Parents also learn effective discipline strategies.  PCIT has been proven, through extensive research, to be effective at improving the child’s behaviors not only in the home but in the school environment, as well.